Philip Salom

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Philip Salom (born 1950) is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist.

Growing up on a farm in Brunswick Junction (In the south-west of Western Australia.) Philip Salmon had an isolated childhood before boarding at Bunbury during high school. While studying Agricultural Science at University of Western Australia he developed his passion for the arts, painting and singing in the university choir. Uninterested in his course he left university, took various casual jobs, and started writing on a 1972 painting trip to New Zealand. On returning to Perth he enrolled in Curtin University's Literature and Creative Writing course, one of the first of its kind in Australia.

On graduating he took a job with the public service in his old area of agriculture. His first poetry collection was published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press in 1980. Since then there have been several collections and two novels. Salom has twice won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for poetry (1981 and 1987), the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards for poetry (1984 and 1988) and for fiction (1992 and 2004) and the Christopher Brennan Award in 2004. He has performed his poetry in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, Yugoslavia, Singapore, New Zealand and currently teaches creative writing at the University of Melbourne.

[edit] Works

Poetry

The Silent Piano. (Fremantle Arts Centre, 1980) ISBN 978-0-909144-31-9
The Projectionist, A Sequence. (Fremantle Arts Centre, 1983) ISBN 978-0-909144-69-2
Barbecue of the Primitives. (University of Queensland, 1989) ISBN 978-0-7022-2221-4
Feeding the Ghost. (Penguin, 1993) ISBN 978-0-14-058692-3
The Rome Air Naked. (Penguin, 1996) ISBN 978-0-14-058773-9
New and Selected Poems. (Fremantle Arts Centre, 1998) ISBN 978-1-86368-218-3
A Cretive Life. (sic.) (Fremantle Arts Centre, 2001) ISBN 978-1-86368-300-5
The Well Mouth. (Fremantle Arts Centre, 2005) ISBN 978-1-921064-24-1 review

Novels

Playback. (Fremantle Arts Centre, 1991; 2003) ISBN 978-1-86368-398-2
Toccata & Rain: A novel. (Fremantle Arts Centre, 2004) ISBN 978-1-920731-49-6

[edit] External links

The Railway Station and the Sistine Ceiling at Divan

One Body or Many? Interview & review

[edit] References

Staff Details at University of Melbourne
Philip Salom in brief

Persondata
NAME	Salom, Philip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Contemporary Australian poet and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH	1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Perth, Western Australia, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH